Resizing an existing repository while keeping the revision numbering

Hi All,

One of the ways we use subversion is to store compiled binaries of all the revisions of a large library we are working on. Even with efficient subversion storage algorithms (deltifying changes) and cheap hdds we are running out of space.

Since earlier builds are now irrelevant to us I would like to purge first half of the repository, and this is easily done with

                svnadmin dump -rN:HEAD ... | svnadmin load ...

Problem is, when we do svn load, the revisions are renumbered from 1. This is undesired behaviour, as we have mirrors of the master repository, some of which we don't want to purge or want to purge independently. Another reason is that we have a mapping between binary svn revisions and source revisions stored elsewhere and do not want to remap it.

Is there a way of telling svn load to skip let say first N revisions? The only thing I can think of is making N temp file commits and trying to do svnadmin load next.

best regards,
Oleg

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Received on 2009-07-22 11:41:26 CEST